ABSTRACT
The author surveys Bion's publications and elaborates on his key contributions in depth while also critiquing them. The scope of this work is to synopsize, synthesize, and extend Bion's works in a reader-friendly manner. The book presents his legacy - his most important ideas for psychoanalysis. These ideas need to be known by the mental health profession at large. This work highlights and defines the broader and deeper implications of his works.It presents his ideas faithfully and also uses his ideas as "launching pads" for the author's conjectures about where his ideas point.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |8 pages
Prelude and prologue
chapter 13|4 pages
The quest for the truth, Part A:
the “truth drive” as the hidden order of Bion’s metatheory for psychoanalysis
chapter 14|8 pages
The quest for the truth, Part B
curiosity about the truth as the “seventh servant”
chapter 17|22 pages
“Projective transidentification”
an extension of the concept of projective identification
